Looping for (self)care: Personal digital health technology and algorithmic systems

Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapportBidrag til bog/antologiForskningfagfællebedømt

In this chapter, we analyse the practices and experiences of people with diabetes who develop, use and share open-source, non-regulated “recipes” for automating insulin delivery with personal digital health technology. The algorithmic systems are known as Open-Source Artificial Pancreas Systems and the algorithm-enabled activity that these people engage in is often referred to as “looping”. Through empirical accounts from the rich and complex practice of using open-source algorithms in diabetes self-management we explore how this concept of looping may hold the potential to critically explore and discuss more general issues related to human-algorithms relations in digital health. We suggest three ways in which looping holds general insights about the potential for more generous human-algorithm relations. First, looping as an active delegation of control given an existing burden of self-care contingent on the acquisition of new skills; second, looping as a collective and recursive engagement with (material) politics of care and data; and third, looping as the ability to opt-out—partly or totally—of toxic intimate entanglement with algorithmic technologies and of extractivist algorithmic assemblages.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
Titel Reframing Algorithms : STS perspectives to Healthcare Automation
RedaktørerFrancesco Miele , Paolo Giardullo
Antal sider27
ForlagPalgrave Macmillan
Publikationsdato2024
Udgave1
Sider197-223
ISBN (Trykt)978-3-031-52048-8
ISBN (Elektronisk)978-3-031-52049-5
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2024

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